The Royal British Legion - Director: Technology

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The Royal British Legion - Director: Technology

Are you an experienced Technology leader looking for a new opportunity? Do you have the enthusiasm, expertise and ambition to shape a key team within one of the UKs leading charities?

We are excited to have the opportunity for a Director: Technology to join the Royal British Legion in this newly created position.

The Director: Technology will be a strategic leader within the newly structured Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Directorate and a member of the senior management team. In this role you will report directly to the newly appointed Executive Director: Digital Data and Technology, playing a crucial role in ensuring technology strategy, leadership, governance, operations, security and change delivery across projects and change workstreams.

Key areas of responsibility will include:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive Technology strategy that supports the charity's objectives
• Lead the Technology function, including managing and developing the Heads of Technology, ensuring a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
• Confidently managing ambiguity and change whilst championing the adoption of emerging technologies to drive transformation and service improvement
• Fostering key relationships with stakeholders, ensuring exceptional communication and engagement with executive level leaders, peers, Trustees and cross functional teams
• Direct technology governance, risk, and compliance, alongside projects and workstreams within wider business programmes
• Act as the senior technology representative and deputise for the Executive Director: DDaT as required

Why Apply?

RBL employs c2,000 people across the country campaigning on behalf of the Armed Forces community, delivering support services to them, leading Remembrance on behalf of the nation, raising funds to support our work and developing and running the organisation and our network of membership branches.

We are modernising, and we are ambitious to deliver more for the communities we support. It's therefore an exciting time to be part of both changing the lives of our customers and changing the organisation and its future capacity and capability.

Here at RBL, we aim to support our people and their wellbeing, with a package including generous paid holiday allowance and pension scheme contributions, and a range of optional benefits and discounts.

You will be contracted to our London Haig House Hub. Under our Future Working framework, there will be some flexibility for working remotely/at home, using our collaboration tools to work with colleagues, but with a minimum expectation of two days/week connecting directly face-to-face with colleagues at the hub.

For more detailed information about the role, please see our Vacancy Information Pack attached to our direct advert.

RBL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.

Closing Date: 10th September

Interview Dates (1st stage Virtual): weeks commencing 23rd and 30th September

Interview Dates (2nd stage face to face): week commencing 14th October

We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role(s). Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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